Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Aslishiva/Archive

26 December 2015

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * User compare report Auto-generated every hour.
 * Editor interaction utility

Aslishiva was indeffed on 21 December 2015 by Bishonen as a result of an ANI case that I opened to have my peers evaluate the user's competence, promotional proclivities and POV editing at Indian cinema articles.

Sehgal96 was created on 21 December 2015. There are significant article overlaps considering Sehgal96 has been editing for a mere 6 days. Bajirao Mastani (film) and Dilwale (2015 film) are both articles of significant interest to the two.

Aslishiva was known to focus on the constant update of box office gross values, and the addition of (typically inappropriate or unnecessary) analysis of those box office figures, ("The film was an 'Average grosser'", "On its second day it showed good growth") where they might describe increases, drops, or the achievement of arbitrary records like a film becoming the "Nth highest grosser of 2015", typically just parroting what sites like BoxOfficeIndia.com wrote in their articles.


 * Sehgal96 - The film collected 39.88c nett in weekdays of its first week to take its first week total to 86.15c nett,which is fourth highest of the year.
 * Sehgal96 - The film saw growth of nearly 20% in its collection on its second friday as it collected 12.50c nett . (Reference here reads "Bajirao Mastani got benefit of the Christmas holiday as it showed growth of 20% from the previous day and the business of the film will be in the 12.50 crore nett range.] Note that the user is stating as fact a prediction by BoxOfficeIndia.com that the film will take in NN amount, this speaks to the reading comprehension problems I reported at the ANI.
 * Aslishiva - The film saw good growth in collection on its second day as it collected 15.52c nett.
 * Aslishiva - The film show further growth on its third day as it collected 18.45c nett to take its first weekend total to 46.77c nett.
 * Aslishiva - User had a real problem remember to capitalize days of the week, or would incorrectly capitalize words that should not have been capitalized. "Second Tuesday", "Second Wekend", "Ten Day total", Second Monday.
 * Sehgal96 "the film Saw drop", "second friday".
 * Aslishiva - User had difficulties using "it's" vs "its". I taught them the difference and they seemed to pick up from that point forward. In some of the examples above, you'll notice that Sehgal96 is using the correct "its", which would be unexpected for an editor who appears to have trouble with capitalization of basic proper nouns and other grammar.

While the above is sufficient to block on duck grounds, I've long been concerned that this user might be part of an editing ring, and I'd like to seee if CU turns up any sleeper accounts or related accounts. I've noticed a very loose trend recently that some editors tend to focus on certain areas, like box office update, critical response sections, general article building, etc. which might suggest that rings delegate certain tasks to certain editors. Thanks! Cyphoidbomb (talk) 19:02, 26 December 2015 (UTC)

Comments by other users
''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.''

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * The two accounts are ✅. . Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 20:53, 26 December 2015 (UTC)

27 December 2015

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * User compare report Auto-generated every hour.
 * Editor interaction utility

Duck by name. Their last account, as confirmed by a CU, was Sehgal96. One edit so far at Bajrangi Bhaijaan, one of Aslishiva's earlier areas of interest. I've indeffed the sock. Including for completeness and closing. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 16:31, 27 December 2015 (UTC)

Comments by other users
''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.''